Monster Haul 1

UPDATED EDITION Mason Scott spent fifteen years repossessing cars. Then he swerved to save a kid on the freeway and died at forty. He wakes up twenty-four years old in a forest in another world. He has one skill: Impound. It can store anything he can lift and pull it back out when he needs it. It doesn’t hit very hard. Mason knows how to plan a job, though. He sets the trap, the trap does the killing, and the System credits him for the setup. He kills a demon boar with a cave-in and goes from level 2 to level 8. Then the System gives him something bigger: his old tow truck, a hundred tons of it, ready when he calls. It’s his truck, down to the dent in the fender and the rain on the windshield. The only thing missing is the car that was on the lift when he died. The village that takes him in has a problem. Two years ago a hunter named Brann went into the hills and never came back. Now there’s a goblin camp half a day south, and his jacket is hanging on a stake in the middle of it. Mason has a contract with a sharp elven merchant who wants more than his freight. He has a promise to Tavi, the girl who waits up for him: he tells her the real risks before he goes, not after. And there’s a camp full of goblins that may still be holding people alive. He’s going in to get them out. He just needs a straight road. Monster Haul is a LitRPG adventure with a working-class hero, a harem storyline, smart trap fights, and a lot of freight. What’s new in the Updated Edition: Tighter middle: the Calder and capital chapters are shorter and move faster.Reworked final battle: Mason’s plan is what wins, not luck.Cleaner prose: fewer odd comparisons, less trade jargon getting in the way of the jokes, and new names and terms explained when they first show up.Continuity fixes: distances, the timeline and the System numbers now match Book 2.Setup for Book 2: new scenes and details, including more about the truck and where it came from.